zalmedina
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِبُ اَلْمَدِينَة (ṣāḥibu al-madīna, literally “chief of the city”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θalmeˈdina/ [θal.meˈð̞i.na]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /salmeˈdina/ [sal.meˈð̞i.na]
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: zal‧me‧di‧na
Noun
[edit]zalmedina m (plural zalmedinas)
- (historical) A magistrate with civil and criminal jurisdiction in a medieval city.
Further reading
[edit]- Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “zalmedina”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
- “zalmedina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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